I post a clue daily in Twitter (https://twitter.com/somsram) and WA. Here’s the clue for today.

Solution to Cracking Cryptics – 21st June 2023
Clue: Characters of play organized around August (5)
Answer: ROYAL
Annotation: : Hidden in Reverse in {p}lay or<<{ganized}
Def: August
Indicators: Characters of
Solvers
19solvers submitted, and all got it correct.

TOP 3 Ratna Rao, Harish T K and Nilesh Parmar

OTHERS
Venkatraghavan S
Anu
RATNAKUMAR
Sandhya Paruchuri
Veena Venkataraman
Ramki Krishnan
Eswaran
Lakshmi Prakash
Gayathri
Magi
Anantha Kumar
Sibani
Mahesh
Jyothish Balakrishnan
Madhup Tewari and
Srinath

Congrats to all those who cracked it.